AP:

By a vote of 33-63, the Senate fell far short of the 60 votes that would have been needed to limit debate on the immigration measure and put it on a path to passage. Republicans — even those who helped craft the measure and are expected to support it — banded together to oppose that move, while a majority of Democrats backed it.

If the bill serves as an apple of discord, and gets all the Republicans to compete on who hates brown people the most, great, but actually passing the bill means a National ID card.

Which you would have to “prove ID” with when you applied for a job. For starters.

Do you really want to give the people running this country that much power?

Didn’t think so.

The immigration is a bad bill. We should stick wit the status quo, bad though it might be.

NOTE Why the heck don’t we… Just open the borders? Whoever wants work can have it.

UPDATE Excellent. The bill fails. We live in the best of all possible worlds, since the bill caused dissension among the Republicans, Bush looks like he can’t deliver his own party even with a Bipartisan effort, and there’s not going to be ainternal passport National ID this year. Reid dekes Bush yet again.

A broad immigration bill to legalize millions of people in the U.S. unlawfully failed a crucial test vote Thursday, a stunning setback that could spell its defeat for the year.

The vote was 45-50 against limiting debate on the bill, 15 short of the 60 that the bill’s supporters needed to prevail. Most Republicans voted to block Democrats’ efforts to bring the bill to a final vote.

And when we get control of the Senate—Fuck you too, Joe Lieberman—we can pass a better bill than we could with the Republicans screwing around with it.